Gog's new customer base

"I can't login"

"Now I can't buy a game"

"Help I can't download my game now"

"Where's my steam key"

Good luck gog

summary of what I think can be found here


let's be honest now. we all saw this coming, there have been too many signs where GOG was headed (and is heading now). we just chose to give GOG the benefit of the doubt. It was good while it lasted, but for me it is extremely hard to have any confidence in GOG anymore. Will I keep buying games from GOG? Sure, especially old GOG exclusives. Will I treat GOG as my exclusive store for gaming purchases, force all my friends to use it and prefer it over Steam?

DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!

That wouldn't even help. The whole point of the offline DRM free installers is that you can download an installer now, and use it to install the game anywhere, anytime.

For instance, think about what happens if someone downloads an installer on Saturday (after this change has taken effect) and either never gets around to installing it or installs it, completes the game, and then uninstalls it again. Now fast forward two years. Said user now feels like playing the game again (or for the first time, if they never got around to it originally). They think "ah, I already have the installer that I downloaded back then, I'll just install it from that". What happens to their current Galaxy installation?

GOG will surely have their work cut out for them keeping the installers available for download up-to-date, but they can't do anything about the installers people have already downloaded.

This is BS of the highest order, in case you (GOG) haven't thought about this before (which seems to be the case or you wouldn't have come up with this crackpot idea in the first place):

People exclusively using offline installers do so consciously because they don't want to have ANYTHING to do with Galaxy. They are very well aware of Galaxy and its "convenience" and "quality of life" features (besides other completely pointless crap like achievements) but are perfectly fine with downloading, managing, keeping games up to date, or backing up save games by themselves MANUALLY.

Otherwise they wouldn't have chosen the offline installers over Galaxy in the first place, simple as that.

I see the point of bundling Galaxy with offline installers for games with multiplayer functionality which wouldn't work without Galaxy but for everything else, especially singleplayer-only titles? Hell NO!

If, for example you want to or for some inexplicable reason absolutely must have achievements and their annoying, immersion-breaking notifications pop up on the screen at the most inappropriate moments you should be able to do so by installing Galaxy SEPARATELY but it should NOT and IN NO CASE be forced or imposed on you because you accidentally forgot to uncheck something during the installation process of a game for which the inclusion of Galaxy with the respective offline installers IS NOT required in any way for the game to function and work.

Not to often the forum members can all agree on something... we may not all agree on the best way of handling it or if should even be done. But I think we can all agree that what GOG is currently proposing isn't great.

Go back the drawing board. I have to say I find it weird that GOG constantly does things nobody is really asking for rather than doing this things we ask for every single day. What the hell is up with that?

Anyway, if done differently I can get behind this but right now it's a bad idea.

Ya konw, fables is kinda right in terms of being optional (Well if Galaxy is required for multiplayer) but, other clients like steam or Origin forces you to install the client regardless.


Just sayin'.

Well, it seems to work for Nintendo, so...

Sure, that would be the corporate way.

GOG - catering to the Galaxy needs of pirates since May 2017.

By the way, please enlighten me as to how a pirate downloading GOG's game installers may be unfamiliar with GOG itself.

Right now everyone in here from my generation is thinking of New Coke and screaming.

Like the regional pricing/locking i didn't see this one coming.
Not a big fan of it, nope.

What was the thought process behind this ?
Nobody will notice?
Nobody cares?
The majority of our customers will like it?

Or the more likely answer

GOG-Meeting-2017

Employee 1: "Remember when we did THE thing back then."
Employee 2: "Yeah that was something I think nothing will piss of more people then this."
Employee 3: "Hold my beer"

But yeah its your Store, do what you must.

Many pirates admit they pirated because of broken games, to demo, because of DRM, and because before Steam the process was more complicated. Once Steam simplified that and offered additional value outside of just the actual game, many pirates also admitted they now purchase more games. Call it what you will though...

Google for pirated game... get offered GOG copy instead of a Steam copy...download... profit? Just because it says GOG on it doesn't mean people understand what that means, what matters is if it works.

EDIT: It also doesn't cater to pirates, these things are locked behind your account which must own the game.

I read "optional", so i dont see a problem, aside that second commen from JMich.

I use galaxy for downloading the installers and updating the already installed. I like it for that. Yet I really dislike this idea. Moreso I immensely dislike the reasoning you have been told to give us because that flat out insulting :(

Even I agree with this.... and I tend to disagree with everyone on principle...

Woa..200 posts in 6 hours..

I currently don't use Galaxy, but I don't have big problems with it as long as it stays optional.

However, it doesn't make sense to have it enabled by default inside standalone installers, because the people who download them are the same who don't use Galaxy.

Also, I hope that its big setup won't be duplicated in every single installer.. O_o

Please, make it an optional external download!